In his quest, he discovers two important things: he has a conscience and a sense of morality. However, he earns his teaching degree, just barely, at a second-rate college. Onizuka, upon seeing this display of a teacher's power over girls, decides to become a teacher himself. The teacher is old and ugly, but has sufficient influence over her that she leaps from a second-story window and lands in his arms. Onizuka's attempt to sleep with her fails when her current "boyfriend", her teacher, shows up at the love hotel they are in and asks her to return to him. While peeping up girls' skirts at a local shopping mall, Onizuka meets a schoolgirl who agrees to go out on a date with him. Main article: List of Great Teacher Onizuka charactersĮikichi Onizuka is a 22-year-old ex-gang member and virgin. In 1998, Great Teacher Onizuka won the 22nd Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category. The manga is licensed by Kodansha USA.Īs of November 2007, the manga had over 50 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series in history.
The anime series was re-licensed by Discotek Media in 2012. Both the anime and manga were licensed in North America by Tokyopop. Another sequel, titled GTO: Paradise Lost, began in Weekly Young Magazine in April 2014. A second live-action series aired in Japan during 2012, and two more in 2014.Ī sequel manga series, titled GTO: 14 Days in Shonan, ran in Weekly Shōnen Magazine from June 2009 to September 2011. It is a continuation of Fujisawa's earlier manga series Shonan Junai Gumi and Bad Company, both of which focus on the life of Onizuka before becoming a teacher.ĭue to the popularity of the manga, several adaptations of GTO were created, including a twelve-episode Japanese television drama running from July to September 1998 a live-action film directed by Masayuki Suzuki and released in December 1999 and a 43-episode anime television series produced by Pierrot, which aired in Japan on Fuji TV from June 1999 to September 2000.
The story focuses on 22-year-old ex- bōsōzoku member Eikichi Onizuka, who becomes a teacher at a private middle school, Holy Forest Academy, in Tokyo, Japan. It was originally serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from January 1997 to February 2002, with its chapters compiled into twenty-five tankōbon volumes. Great Teacher Onizuka, officially abbreviated as GTO, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tooru Fujisawa.
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